SOME OF MY FAVORITE

Here's the last CD I fell in love with:
Indigo Girls - Become You

They're sending soldiers to distant places
X's and O's on someone's drawing board
Like green and plastic but with human faces
And they want to tell you it's a merciful sword
But with all the blood newly dried in the desert
Can we not fertilize the land with something else ?
There is no nation by god exempted
Lay down your weapons and love your neighbor as yourself

Emily Saliers - Our Deliverance
Indigo Girls - Become You

For this we shed our skin
Feel where each breath begins
Bleed as we pick the rose
Fall back with both eyes closed

Beth Nielsen Chapman - All for the Love
Deeper Still

We're sculpted from youth,
the chipping away makes me weary
And as for the truth
it seems like we just pick a theory

Emily Saliers - Deconstruction
Indigo Girls - Become You

I've been dreaming in a straight line
I've been waking up in circles

Beth Nielsen Chapman - All the Time in the World
Sand and Water

It's a nation of noses pressed up against the glass
They've seen it on the TV
And they want it pretty fast

Don Henley - Gimme What You Got
End of the Innocence

But I've forgotten my lines
I've misplaced my cues
And there's a sea full of faces
And a show to go on
And I'm struck mute at entrance
With nothing to draw from

Emily Saliers - Caramia
Indigo Girls - Shaming of the Sun

All alone I came into this world
All alone I will someday die
Solid stone is just sand and water baby
Sand and water and a million years gone by

Beth Nielsen Chapman - Sand and Water
Sand and Water

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good ?
Will it buy you forgiveness ?
Do you think that it could ?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
That all the money you have
Will never buy back your soul

Bob Dylan - Masters of War
Freewheelin'

Sweet smell of great sorrow
lies over the land
Plumes of smoke rise
and merge into the leaden sky

David Gilmour - Sorrow
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

I would dial the numbers
Just to listen to your breath
I would stand inside my hell
And hold the hand of death
You don't know how far I'd go
To ease this precious ache
You don't know how much I'd give
Or how much I can take

Melissa Etheridge - Come To My Window
Yes I Am

She will promise you more
Than the Garden of Eden
Then she'll carelessly cut you
And laugh while you're bleeding
But she'll bring out the best
And the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself
'Cause she's always a woman to me

Billy Joel - She's Always a Woman
The Stranger

He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen ! and Hallelujah !

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Graceland

The wind it was so insistent
With tales of a stormy south
When I spied two birds in a sycamore tree
There came a dryness in my mouth
For then without rhyme or reason
The two birds did rise up to fly
And where the two birds were flying
I swear I saw you and I

Sting - I Was Brought To My Senses
Mercury Rising

When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool

Pete Townshend - Behind Blue Eyes
The Who - Who's Next

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone

David Gilmour, Roger Waters - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - The Wall

Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime ?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the nighttime from the day
You're losing all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away ?

Don Henley, Glenn Frey - Desperado
Desperado

Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake
Floatin' in my bowl takin' movies
Relaxin' a while, livin' in style
Talkin' to a raisin who occasionally plays L.A.
Casually glancing at his toupee

Paul Simon - Punky's Dilemma
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends

Ambo's Realm

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